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Building a Search Engine Using Open Technology?
cybrthng asks: "Mozdex.com is my attempt at building a search engine capable of indexing the entire web. Our goal is to provide a completely transparent system utilizing open technologies such as Nutch, Lucene and other systems to provide a search facility that is more scientific and 'protocol' vs the current propriety and almost 'faith based' search engine results and methods of getting listed. What do you look for out of a search engine? What would you look for out of this project? Should large commercial entities be the only way we find information and resources on the net? BTW, our beta index currently has about 50 million pages and we hope it shows what can be done using Open Source systems available today. We are seeking input on starting a developer & input community as well as getting concepts and ideas out and about, so we value your ideas and what you hope to see out of this project." -
Nutch: An Open Source Search Engine
Anonymous Coward writes "Someone forwarded me this site working to create an open source search engine called Nutch. In the age of weighted rankings on search engines for profits, there's an obvious need for an unbiased search engine. After all, isn't a search engine supposed to be for finding relevant data, not as an indirect and sometimes slimy method of advertising? Nutch is clearly in their intial stages, but it would certainly get my vote." You can find the project on SF.net, and also read the Business 2.0 article on it.